Our weekly recap of veteran artists on the current British music charts. Chart highlights:

• Iron Maiden's The Final Frontier drops from 1 to 3 in its second week but retains the biggest selling album in Britain by a veteran artist.
• One new album by a veteran artist debuts this week, The Greatest Hits by the Bay City Rollers. It starts at 12 and is their first charting album since Very Best of hit number 11 in April of 2004.
• Etta James' At Last jumps from 159 to 69 on the Singles chart. The record has never made the British top forty.
• One year after its original release, Whitney Houston's I Look at You retakes the top selling R&B album in Britain after moving 25 to 19.
• Steve Martin's The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo jumps 20 to 5 on the Country Albums chart, giving him the highest charting album by a veteran artist in that genre.

Previous week position noted in parenthesis. (N) is a new entry. (R) is a re-entry. Grayed charts were not available for update at time of publication.

Top 100 British Albums

• #1 (2) - Recovery - Eminem
• #2 (4) - The Defamation of Strickland Bank - Plan B
• #3 (1) - The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
• #4 (5) - The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
• #5 (8) - Eliza Doolittle - Eliza Doolittle
• #12 (N) - The Greatest Hits - Bay City Rollers
• #32 (17) - Praise & Blame - Tom Jones
• #38 (120) - Celebration - Madonna
• #41 (84) - Very Best of - Fleetwood Mac
• #50 (44) - Some Guys Have All the Luck - Rod Stewart
• #52 (48) - Number Ones - Michael Jackson
• #58 (39) - The Greatest Hits - Earth Wind & Fire
• #64 (31) - Iron Man 2 Soundtrack - AC/DC
• #71 (75) - Wake Up the Nation - Paul Weller
• #73 (63) - Gold: Greatest Hits - ABBA
• #80 (58) - Ultimate Collection - Whitney Houston
• #82 (68) - Then and Now - Who
• #86 (89) - Piece of the Action: The Best of - Meat Loaf
• #90 (133) - Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
• #93 (R) - Intriguer - Crowded House
• #99 (R) - Hang Cool Teddy Bear - Meat Loaf

Top 100 British Singles

• #1 (N) - Dynamite - Taio Cruz
• #2 (2) - Love the Way You Lie - Eminem Featuring Rihanna
• #3 (3) - Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida Featuring David Guetta
• #4 (1) - Green Light - Roll Deep
• #5 (N) - Katy on a Mission - Katy B
• #47 (52) - Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
• #69 (159) - At Last - Etta James
• #80 (100) - Song For My Father - Luther Vandross
• #87 (87) - More Than a Feeling - Boston

The Catalog, R&B, Country, Rock and Dance Charts are after the cut.

Top 40 British Catalog Albums

• #1 - These Streets - Paolo Nutini
• #2 - Call Me Irresponsible - Michael Buble
• #3 - Gorillaz - Gorillaz
• #4 - One of the Boys - Katy Perry
• #5 - The Script - The Script
• #7 - Highway to Hell - AC/DC
• #13 - Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
• #21 - Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
• #24 - Bad - Michael Jackson
• #27 - Metallica - Metallica
• #33 - Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
• #35 - Thriller - Michael Jackson

Top 40 British R&B Albums

• #1 (1) - Recovery - Eminem
• #2 (2) - The Defamation of Strickland Banks - Plan B
• #3 (3) - Chilled R&B: Summer Classics - Various Artists
• #4 (4) - Rated R - Rihanna
• #5 (7) - Jason Derulo - Jason Derulo
• #19 (25) - I Look to You - Whitney Houston
• #21 (18) - Ultimate Collection- Whitney Houston
• #40 (33) - Essential - Michael Jackson

Top 40 British R&B Singles

• #1 (N) - Dynamite - Taio Cruz
• #2 (2) - Love the Way You Lie - Eminem Featuring Rihanna
• #3 (1) - Green Light - Roll Deep
  
• #4 (4) - Billionaire - Travie McCoy Featuring Bruno Mars
  
• #5 (3) - Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo
• No veteran artists charting

Top 20 British Country Albums

• #1 (1) - Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
• #2 (2) - Court Yard Hounds - Court Yard Hounds
• #3 (4) - Fearless - Taylor Swift
• #4 (5) - What Does It Take - Nell Bryden
• #5 (20) - The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo - Steve Martin
• #6 (N) - Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions - Marty Stuart
• #13 (13) - Eagle When She Flies/Slow Dancing/White - Dolly Parton
• #14 (14) - Back to Love - Beth Nielsen Chapman
• #16 (15) - Country Music - Willie Nelson
• #19 (R) - All I Intend to Be - Emmylou Harris
• #20 (16) - Long Road Out Of Eden - Eagles

Top 40 British Rock & Metal Albums

• #1 (1) - The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
• #2 (2) - Fever - Bullet For My Valentine
• #3 (5) - The Resistance - Muse
• #4 (4) - Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold
• #5 (7) - Brand New Eyes - Paramore
• #8 (3) - Iron Man 2 Soundtrack - AC/DC
• #14 (14) - Metallica - Metallica
• #17 (31) - Mothership - Led Zeppelin
• #23 (19) - Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of - Iron Maiden
• #24 (16) - Highway to Hell - AC/DC
• #27 (25) - The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
• #30 (35) - Live - AC/DC
• #33 (23) - S&M - Metallica
• #34 (R) - Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

Top 40 British Rock & Metal Singles

• #1 (1) - Closer to the Edge - 30 Seconds To Mars
• #2 (3) - Make Me Wanna Die - Pretty Reckless
• #3 (N) - It Never Ends - Bring Me the Horizon
• #4 (4) - Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
• #5 (5) - Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
• #6 (7) - Livin' On a Prayer - Bon Jovi
• #11 (10) - Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
• #17 (19) - Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
• #18 (18) - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
• #23 (23) - Enter Sandman - Metallica
• #26 (30) - Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
• #28 (34) - Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• #30 (R) - Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
• #32 (R) - Paranoid - Black Sabbath
• #40 (R) - We Are the Champions - Queen

Top 40 British Dance Singles

• #1 (1) - Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida Featuring David Guetta
• #2 (N) - Katy on a Mission - Katy B
• #3 (2) - We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool vs. D Cup
• #4 (4) - One (Your Name) - Sweedish House Mafia/Pharrell
• #5 (3) - Let You Go - Chase & Status Featuring Mali
• No Veteran Artists Charting.